Cover for water-closet seats



(N0 Model.)

Patent-ed Apr. 1, 1884.

WITNESSES; INVENTOR: M QM flamwm 12925! Y ATTORN'EYS.

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and Fig.3a section of the seat-sheet on the UNITED STATES PATENT IQFFICE.

DALE 0. JooWEN, or BATAVIA, OHIO.

COVER FORVWATER-CLOSE'II SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,141, dated April 1, 1884,

l Application filed June 21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, DALE O. CoWEN, of

Batavia, inthe countyot' Olermont and State cheap and ready-made cover for, the seats of IQ water-closets and privies, which shall aflord M protectionagainst the communication of dis- 1 .ease in such of these necessary conveniences or articles as are used by diiferent people or -promiscuously as, for instance, the water.- closets or privies in; places of public resort,

1, 1 including hotels, oflices, factories, steamships,

a drax vings, forming ,a part of this specification,

in which'similar letters of a reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view'in perspective I of my improved seat sheet or cover as seen from its upper surface; Fig. 2,, a perspective view of the same as seen from itsunder side,

line a: w in Fig, 1.

A in the drawings is the seat-sheet, which x may be made-of cheap thin paper'of a size to a .30 y

l l tion thereof as is exposed to contact with the cover thetopsurface of the seat, orsuch porperson. Said sheet has a hole, b, in it, correl sponding with the hole in the seat of the water-closet Dhe shectis designed to be used in connection with the1 seat as a seat-cover.

The edge adjacent to the hole of this sheet A is bent orturned downward to form a short funne1-like flange, c, of a shape to'enter easily down within the hole in the seat of the closet,

and so that said flange will cover or protect the margin or walls of the apertured portion of the seat from contact with the person of an individual using the seat, and will further serve tocenter or hold the seat-sheet in place.

These seat-sheets may be made of differentsizes and shapes to suit different water-closets or priviesancl *apertures in the seats thereof; but a few changes in these respects will suffice, inasmuch as it is not necessary that the sheets should be an exact fit, but only an approximate one to the seats they are designed to be usedon. t

I am aware that paper covers for a watercloset seat have been made with two circles of punctures and two flaps; also, that a sheet having the hole marked out by apertures and connecting-strips, so that the piece will read 'ily break away, has been used; but- What I claim as new and of my invention 1si As an improved article of manufacture, a water-closet-seat cover consisting of a'sheet of paper,/A, provided with'a hole, b, having a downwardlynprojecting flange, 0, extending around said hole, the said flange being into.- gral with the body of the sheet, as set forth.

DALE O. COWEN. Witnesses:

J. W. KAIN, GEoJV. HULIclgJr. 

